Richard Atkins

Richard Atkins is a senior contributor at Tech Insider covering online media, online travel, and video games. Richard has been with Tech Insider covering companies in these industries since 2011 and has authored numerous industry reports, including "Internet Video: Field of Dreams or Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Next Leg of Online Travel," and "Pwned: How Casual Games Changed The Gaming Landscape." Atkins was recognized as the No. 2 stock picker and earnings estimator in the 2011 Financial Times / StarMine Internet & Catalog Retail category and was ranked in the 2010 Wall Street Journal "Best On The Street" for the Leisure Goods & Services category.

Stock in News: Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Assembles Container Management Coalition

In a major development on Thursday, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) confirmed that it has managed to convince several rivals that it is in their best interest to join a coalition to develop and support its new Kubernetes container migration and management system. The statement from Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) highlighted that International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM),…

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Active Stock: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) to Close Windows 7 Support In Jan 2015

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) recently cut support for Windows XP three months ago and now has plans to drop support for Windows 7 early next year. Microsoft made the official announcement early this month. The company also announced it was ending support for Windows Server 2003 and Office 2010. The personal computer operating system maker,…

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Stock in News: NASA to take Google (NASDAQ GOOG) 3D Smartphones to Space

3D smartphones of Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) will soon become the “brains and eyes” of NASA robots aboard International Space Station. The space agency will send these smartphones in a cargo spacecraft that will launch on Friday, July 11. NASA said it will use Google’s 3D sensing technology to beef up its SPHERES (Synchronized Position…

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